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| UpdatedWA's sole Senate candidate for the Australian Anti-paedophile Party says she is fighting for the same cause as Derryn Hinch's Justice Party - the protection of children from sexual abuse.
Topics: federal-elections, minor-parties, wa
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| UpdatedA Nick Xenophon Team Tasmanian Senate candidate discovers at the final stretch of the long election campaign he is ineligible.
Topics: federal-elections, minor-parties, tas
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| UpdatedThe northern Melbourne seat of Batman, one of the country's most progressive federal electorates, is now the stage of some grubby politics.
Topics: race-relations, community-and-society, law-crime-and-justice, minor-parties, federal-election, elections, federal-elections, religion-and-beliefs, government-and-politics, vic, australia, northcote-3070, preston-3072
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Several new political parties representing a range of interests are vying for a WA Senate seat in next weekend's federal election.
Topics: federal-election, minor-parties, wa
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| UpdatedWhile Nick Xenophon's new party is expected to do well in his home state of South Australia, the party is also putting pressure on a previously safe Coalition seat in New South Wales.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, elections, federal---state-issues, greens, nationals, minor-parties, regional, sa
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| UpdatedThe Palmer United Party (PUP) will stand a Senate candidate in every Australian state as leader Clive Palmer formally launches its federal election campaign in Brisbane.
Topics: federal-elections, minor-parties, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedAs July 2 edges closer, 612 ABC Brisbane will be getting to know the ordinary people who enter the political arena hoping to make a difference.
Topics: federal-elections, minor-parties, qld
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| UpdatedThey're the people many voters try to avoid eye contact with at entrances to polling stations, but why do these Australians volunteer for political parties?
Topics: federal-elections, political-parties, volunteers, elections, government-and-politics, community-and-society, alp, greens, liberals, minor-parties, nationals, brisbane-4000, darwin-0800, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, adelaide-5000, hobart-7000, perth-6000, canberra-2600
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| UpdatedAs Australians begin pre-polling for the July 2 federal election, one party competing in five states says it will vote on legislation based on polls run on a free smartphone app.
Topics: federal-elections, mobile-phones, elections, federal-government, federal-parliament, political-parties, minor-parties, information-technology, perth-6000
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| UpdatedIndependent senator Nick Xenophon accuses the major parties in South Australia of colluding to deny his candidates victories in local seats.
Topics: federal-elections, government-and-politics, states-and-territories, liberals, alp, political-parties, minor-parties, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedTwo of Clive Palmer's employees James McDonald and Craig Gunnis, who worked on the businessman's Titanic II project and his vintage car museum Palmer Motorama, will stand for the Palmer United Party.
Topics: federal-elections, elections, minor-parties, clive-palmer, brisbane-4000, qld
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| UpdatedThe Prime Minister's election campaign lands in South Australia where he will try to shore up support for the seat of Mayo.
Topics: federal-elections, liberals, minor-parties, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedThe right-wing United Patriots Front has failed to deliver on a promise to register a political party for next month's federal election.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-elections, elections, minor-parties, australia
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| UpdatedQueensland independent MP Billy Gordon is charged with drink-driving and unlicensed driving in far north Queensland.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, crime, federal-government, state-parliament, minor-parties, government-and-politics, mareeba-4880, cairns-4870, qld, australia
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| UpdatedIndependent Senator Jacqui Lambie has singled out the number of 457 visas as a reason for what she sees as a lack of employment opportunity in Australia.
"We have over a million 457s out there, and that's another reason why we don't have jobs here," Senator Lambie told ABC TV's Q&A on May 30.
Are there over a million people with 457 visas "out there" as Senator Lambie suggests? ABC Fact Check runs the numbers.
Topics: work, immigration, federal-elections, minor-parties, australia
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| UpdatedThe Northern Territory's newest political party suffers a blow, with one of its candidates for August's election quitting the group to run as an independent.
Topics: government-and-politics, minor-parties, political-parties, states-and-territories, darwin-0800
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| UpdatedPreferences could decide the final outcome for a safe Liberal seat in Adelaide, where a Nick Xenophon Team candidate stands as a real challenge to Jamie Briggs.
Topics: federal-elections, liberals, minor-parties, federal---state-issues, adelaide-5000, sa, australia
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| UpdatedDeputy Premier Jackie Trad is cleared of allegations that she bullied and abused former Labor MP and now independent Rob Pyne.
Topics: state-parliament, alp, minor-parties, public-sector, brisbane-4000, cairns-4870, qld
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| UpdatedIndependent MP Rob Pyne uses Queensland Parliament to accuse the Electrical Trades Union of vilifying and attacking him and his family in a sustained hate campaign since he left the Labor Party in March.
Topics: state-parliament, activism-and-lobbying, unions, alp, minor-parties, cairns-4870, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedQueensland is a key battleground state in the upcoming federal election, where 12 of the state's 30 seats sit on margins of under 5 per cent.
Topics: federal-elections, federal---state-issues, activism-and-lobbying, alp, turnbull-malcolm, bill-shorten, liberals, nationals, minor-parties, liberal-national-party-queensland, greens, qld, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, brisbane-4000
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Retiring federal MP Clive Palmer will struggle to find any support across Queensland if he decides to join the Senate ticket, political experts say.
Topics: clive-palmer, minor-parties, federal-parliament, australia, maroochydore-4558
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Retiring federal MP Clive Palmer has not ruled out standing as a Queensland Senate candidate for the Palmer United Party (PUP), saying he needs to discuss his future with his wife.
Topics: federal-election, federal-parliament, minor-parties, qld, australia, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedRetiring federal MP Clive Palmer does not rule out standing as a Queensland Senate candidate for the Palmer United Party, saying he needs to discuss his future with his wife.
Topics: federal-parliament, minor-parties, clive-palmer, act, townsville-4810, maroochydore-4558
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In the three years since Clive Palmer was elected for the seat of Fairfax, he has been criticised for not spending enough time in his electorate, labelled a bully by his own party members and sued by at least one of them.
Topics: clive-palmer, government-and-politics, federal-parliament, federal-elections, federal-election, minor-parties, maroochydore-4558, australia
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| UpdatedThe number of privately owned firearms in Australia has passed pre-Port Arthur levels for the first time, as shooters increase their personal collections.
Topics: federal-government, laws, minor-parties, alp, tas